Protect yourself from increasingly complex cyber threats
Small and big businesses alike rely on technology. And every business wants to protect their customers, their brand, and their sensitive data. But cyber attackers are often one step ahead, leaving you vulnerable to data breaches. And your business vulnerable to losses, ransom demands and reputational damage.
You need a team of expert security analysts on your side – they’ll do what they do best, offering you cyber security measures you can rely on. So you can simply get on with running your business.
Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) can lighten your security load and boost your cyber security resources. Expert analysts and operatives will monitor your network security for anomalous behaviour and malicious code, alerting you when potential cyber threats appear, and working alongside you to respond. Gone are the days of noisy anti-virus software acting as a mere alarm system. Our Security Operations Centre will proactively alert, respond to, and help you resolve cyber threats.
What is a Security Operations Centre?
A Security Operations Centre (also known as a SOC) is a team of security experts who continuously monitor your computer systems and respond to any indicators of attack or compromise. So a SOC fulfils the full spectrum of Managed Detection and Response (MDR).
Our SOC helps you keep up to speed with the ever-changing complex world of cyber security. We’ll work alongside your business to strengthen your security posture, protecting you against any security risks you face now, and anticipate those you might face in the future.
We have three different SOC options available to suit different budgets and requirements:
- Essential Security Operations Centre – With our entry level multitenant SOC you can onboard as many desktop and mobile devices as you like for 24/7 protection.
- Enhanced Security Operations Centre – With our Enhanced SOC you’ll have all the functionality of our Essential SOC along with longer log retention, threat hunting and access to our customer portal included.
- Enterprise Security Operations Centre – Everything we offer with Essential and Enhanced Security Operations Centre, you’ll get here. Plus, tailored threat workshops and discovery exercises for a full business overview.
Cyber security explained (acronyms and all)
The world of cyber security (and the jargon surrounding it) can make it all feel pretty complex. So, in the interests of being straightforward, we thought it might be helpful to explain some of the acronyms we get the most questions about – the DR’s. From EDR, to XDR and MDR – we break it all down below and explain what each of these mean in relation to a Security Operations Centre.
What is Endpoint Detection and Response?
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is technology that analyses threat intelligence feeds. It constantly monitors the behaviour of an endpoint to see if its behaviour is indicative of a threat. This will then flag the threat to the end user so you can then decide upon, and coordinate, your response. Think of it as an alarm that detects a threat and lets you know about it.
What is Extended Detection and Response?
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is another piece of technology. But rather than just monitoring end points, it monitors multiple attack surfaces (things like servers, networks and cloud environments). It presents this data from different sources into a single dashboard to flag any behaviour that’s indicative of a threat. Again, it’s like an alarm. Once it’s flagged potential threats, you then need to decide upon, and coordinate, your response.
What is Managed Detection and Response?
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is what we do. Our Security Operations Centre is a prime example of MDR, as MDR balances the tech (aka the alarm system) with the right processes and people. So we’re not just detecting behaviour indicative of a threat, we’re also acting on what the technology is telling us to fulfil the response part of MDR in a proactive way.
Your business, always secure
Trust our experts to keep your data under lock and key.
Connect
We’ll collect data from your IT environments into our SOC platform, which is connected to the people and tools you need to keep you safe from potential threats
Secure
We can protect a wide array of IT environments and systems. Keeping you protected and compliant with government cleared security analysts, supported by the right tools and processes.
Scale
Businesses rarely stand still for long. No matter what you need to protect, and no matter how much of it there is, we’ll meet your business needs and regulatory requirements.
Essential Security Operations Centre
With our entry level multitenant SOC you can onboard as many desktop and mobile devices as you like. So our government security cleared analysts can defend and protect your business 24/7.
We use the perfect blend of people, technology and process to relentlessly scan your environment for malicious software, common cyber threats and indicators of cyber-attack or compromise. When genuine cyber threats are discovered we’re on hand to support you with remediation advice and guidance. So you can resolve that cyber threat before it’s anywhere near your business.
You’ll have full visibility of all incidents, alerts and cyber threats with our monthly reporting. Allowing you to see trends and patterns when it comes to your cyber security posture. And we’ll help strengthen your security posture through continuous security configuration improvements – supporting your compliance requirements, and helping you attain cyber insurance.
All of this is delivered from our UK data centres to support any data sovereignty requirements you might have.
24/7 protection
We have some of the most highly accredited security analysts in the country, equipped with the best tools, protecting your business and identifying threats day and night.
Wide array of integrations
Whatever you need protected, we can capture data from almost any source and feed it into our Security Operations Centre.
Supporting compliance and cyber insurance
Our Essential SOC has everything you need to help you gain cyber insurance, cyber essentials, cyber essentials + and ISO27001.
Clearly defined managed service
With our Essential SOC we offer 6 month log retention that informs your monthly service report. And all incidents are backed by a response SLA.
Will ‘Essential Security Operations’ be a good fit for you? Yes, if…
You need to concentrate on other things
Our experts will do all of the heavy lifting to secure your business (it will all run for you in the background). And if you do need to do anything, we’ll guide you through the process.
Your budget won’t stretch to an advanced threat hunting cloud service
This is a great entry level security solution that you can add to over time.
You need to be insured and compliant
Our SOC solution offers the checks and balances you need to make certification easier and potentially bring down your premiums.
People keep falling victim to common cyber-attacks
People are the weakest point in every business’s cyber security posture (we’ll help safeguard your users from themselves)
Enhanced Security Operations Centre
With our Enhanced SOC you’ll have all the functionality of our Essential SOC along with longer log retention, threat hunting and access to our customer portal included (for full visibility of all cyber security activity). Designed to do the heavy lifting so you can get on with running your business – our Essential SOC will guide you through the complex world of cyber security.
Threat hunting is where we go beyond your perimeter, actively scanning and hunting for developing cyber security threats before they have any chance to infiltrate your business. This proactive approach means we can always be one step ahead of cyber criminals, resolving problems before they become something worrisome. This coupled with our internal vulnerability scanning (searching for internal weaknesses you didn’t know were there) offers you a holistic view of your security posture. And our enhanced Service Level Agreements mean you’ll know about any potential indicators of attack or compromise fast. So we can swiftly support you to respond and resolve to any cyber security incident.
Our Enhanced SOC also offers you complete transparency. Every cyber threat, incident and alert is logged. Along with every action our analysts have taken to protect your business. And you can view all of this activity any time by logging into your own customer portal.
Proactive threat hunting
With our Enhanced SOC you’ll be one step ahead of cyber criminals. Our security analysts use proactive threat hunting to scan for developing threats before they reach your perimeter.
Access to the portal
We offer complete transparency with our Enhanced SOC. You can log into a customer portal where you can see everything our security analysts do to protect your business.
Incident management
Along with identifying threats and then notifying your security contacts, we also support the analysis, coordination and resolution of security incidents.
Clearly defined managed service
Our Enhanced SOC offers 12 month log retention that informs your monthly service report. Along with a monthly service review where we’ll dig into the reports to recommend service improvements. And all incidents are backed by enhanced response SLA’s.
Will ‘Enhanced Security Operations’ be a good fit for you? Yes if…
You need to be insured and compliant
Our SOC solution offers the checks and balances you need to make certification easier and potentially bring down your premiums.
You’re worried about the cost of security
Our enhanced SOC solutions give you the best balance of security functionality and value for money
You’ve got data in different places
Whether your data is on premise, in the data centre or in the cloud we can keep you protected.
You want oversight of your security operations
With our enhanced SOC you’ll have direct access to the platform so you can review all logs and alerts whenever you want
Enterprise Security Operations Centre
There’s nothing held back – everything we offer with Essential and Enhanced Security Operations Centre, you’ll get here. Plus, we’ll run tailored threat workshops for your teams, along with discovery exercises for a full business overview. And we offer a full range of deployment options.
Our Enterprise SOC is relentlessly proactive. Our analysts conduct frequent threat hunting while constantly looking for ways to help you improve your cyber security posture by taking a truly holistic view of your infrastructure. All while offering end user education to mitigate against human error.
And if you have bespoke requirements, our Enhanced SOC supports custom data sources that we may not be able to support with our other SOC solutions. Our Enterprise SOC really is the full package for those looking for the most robust cyber security solution.
Bespoke and custom integrations
With our Enterprise SOC no matter what you want to protect, we’ll take the time to understand how best to secure any custom data sources and feed those logs into our SOC.
Tailored threat workshops
With tailored threat workshops we take the time to truly understand the risk profile of your business. So you know the threats you're facing now, and those you’re likely to come up against in future.
Enhanced mobile and end user risk monitoring
We’ll analyse any end user device (whether that’s corporate or personal BYOD) so we fully understand what suspicious end user behaviour looks like. We then create user risk scores so you can update device policies and identify where your end users may need cyber security awareness training.
Clearly defined managed service
With Enterprise we’ll notify you of potential threats. So not only will be let you know when a security event has occurred, we’ll help you predict the one around the corner. We then work with you to put measures in place to mitigate those potential threats.
Will ‘Enterprise Security Operations’ be a good fit for you? Yes, if:
You run a large and complex business
If standard functionality and features aren’t enough to keep you secure, Enterprise SOC is for you.
You’re a mature business that already understands your security landscape
Your business understands the importance of a good cyber security strategy and will invest accordingly.
You’ve been caught by cyber-attacks out before
You might be risk adverse because of a previous cyber attack that’s resulted in massive losses and damage.
You want to understand your business’ security end to end
We’ll run threat workshops and understand every corner of your business, make sure it’s protected and even provide awareness training.
There’s no stopping us
Unique partnership and expertise
We’ve coupled the most elite security service (which offers world class independent cyber security expertise and threat hunting) with our proactive managed service capability. So we fulfil the full spectrum of incident response. We detect the threat, alert you to it and then we proactively enable you to respond to that threat. You don’t need to go from pillar to post between your managed service and security provider. And dependent on the level of support you feel you need, we can guide you through the full process.
Two decades of managed service experience
For more than two decades, iomart has been designing and managing secure infrastructure for government agencies, military, telcos, and payment providers. We’re one of the UK’s most trusted managed service and cloud security providers.
We make complicated technology straightforward
Our IT people and security analysts love this stuff (and they’re very good at it). They’re always on hand when you need support to answer any questions, banish any technical hiccups and detangle any complexities you might be facing.
Helping CAS secure their business
“We’ve now got a very credible and experienced security team backing our platform.”
Chris Ellis, Chief Technology Officer – CAS Ltd
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